I had a philosophy teacher once who made a statement that really impacted me. He said (something like), "You can take the world apart to analyze all the pieces, but once you do that, you can never put it back together again." I remember the quizzical look that he had on his face after he said it. It was as if he was picturing all the parts of the world in his head and was simply overwhelmed with the thought that they once fit together so nicely.
I feel like I have some sense of what he was talking about and I believe he was right. Sometimes you just can't go back. I'm talking about it in a much smaller scale than he was. I'm talking about your own personal world - how you relate to your surroundings, other people, yourself... Sometimes you learn certain truths, make certain changes and you find the way that you were before or the way you perceived things before to be intolerable - or, just wrong.
There's something absolutely wonderful about gaining this type of knowledge or insight. And yet, there's a little bit of "sad" mixed in with it. Change is hard. And sometimes.... you just can't go back.
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